Pillar Of Salt: A Daughter's Life In The Shadow Of The Holocaust

Part memoir, part travelogue, Pillar of Salt tells the story of the daughter of Holocaust survivors--a story growing more pressing with the aging of the remaining Holocaust survivors. Anna Salton Eisen grew up in a home where her parents' Holocaust experiences were a well-kept secret. As she grew up questions mounted in her mind about the unspoken tragedy of the Holocaust and its place in her parents' lives. From an early age, on her own, Anna felt compelled to discover and study the Holocaust to understand how it shaped her parents' past as well as her own identity. Growing up without grandparents, with no family pictures on their walls, with over-protective parents who spoke with a heavy accent and an overwhelming parental silence about their past lives, Anna's book, Pillar of Salt relates her life-long journey of self-discovery. When she moved to the Bible Belt of Texas she became an active in the Jewish community as a founding member of the first synagogue in her area. She became a docent for the Dallas Holocaust Museum and an interviewer for the Steven Spielberg Shoah Foundation. In a rare moment of exasperation, Anna confronts her father and asks him to tell her about his past experiences in Poland and his survival of the Concentration Camps. George Salton was a survivor of ten concentration camps. In 2001, with Anna's help together they co-wrote and published her father's memoir, The 23rd Psalm, A Holocaust Memoir. The Pillar of Salt, A Memoir completes their story. Anna's memoir has three parts: first, her upbringing in America as a second generation Holocaust survivor; second, her family's trip to Poland uncovering her father's life before and during the Holocaust; second, their travels to her father's hometown in Poland, to the ghetto where he was imprisoned, and to several of the concentration camps where he was a prisoner; and third, the results of Anna continued extensive research into the genealogy of her family uncovering many original documents recording her father's experiences and the surprising emotional connections that she made afterwards with people connected to their joint story. This book will be launched with a documentary film about Anna and her father with a global release.

• | Author: Anna Salton Eisen|Aaron Eisen
• | Publisher: Mandel Vilar Press
• | Publication Date: May 10, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1942134827
• | ISBN-13: 9781942134824